Mental Health Awareness Week is the ideal opportunity to focus on psychological wellbeing - our own and our family’s.
Emotional literacy means knowing how to talk about mental health and how to improve it and the best way to intervene when a loved one is struggling. Former primary school teacher...
An award-winning sports coach is launching a new venture to encourage 5–12-year-olds to get fit after a year in lockdown.
Matthew Lawn from Killingworth, the brains behind the Football Squirts Academy, and his partner Ashleigh Dobbs are opening Fit Monkeys, a new concept of fun-based physical education (PE) classes, that...
Spreading a little hap-pea-ness this spring, national food charity FoodCycle will launch its first-ever challenge event on 1st April.
Taking place across April, the FoodCycle 50 Challenge will see participants set a 30-day fitness target around the number 50 – from cycling 50 miles per week to a daily...
An art project and community enterprise that looks at innovative solutions to the often-ignored problem of illness, intimacy, sexual function and pleasure, has been launched. Sex with Cancer, conceived by friends, artists and former cancer patients Brian Lobel and Joon Lynn Goh, aims to be the world’s first sex shop led, run...
News that a COVID-19 vaccine is set to be manufactured on Teesside has been welcomed by the National Horizons Centre which will provide vital training to the vaccine manufacturing workforce.
Sixty-million doses of the Novavax vaccine are set to be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees by FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) with the...
North East based specialist mental health and wellbeing service provider, Concern Group, has appointed Adam Crampsie as its new chief executive.
Most recently, Mr. Crampsie was the Managing Director of Bloom Procurement Services which in 2019 delivered over £28 million of social value, leading them to win the Highest...
The Miss England Contest organisers have teamed up with Flawless Photography & Makeover Studios in Middlesbrough to find Finalists from the North East for the next Miss England Final.
Director “Angie Beasley” & Choreographer “Lisa Powell” are looking for contestants aged 16-26 to apply to make sure the area is...
Whitley Bay Boutique Hotel Gives Rooms to NHS Frontline StaffOne of Whitley Bay’s newest hospitality businesses has allocated its apartments free of charge to NHS frontline staff who are unable to return home due to COVID.
Stay Coastal is a luxury self-contained apartment complex with seven rooms and suites including...
A seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has raised £600 for charity by completing a virtual run using equipment provided by a leading Sheffield-based postural support specialist.
Wren Steer, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from a young age due to complications that came as a result of...
Christmas is just around the corner and a fantastic present for Healthwatch Newcastle would be the appointment of a new Chair for its Healthwatch Committee.
Healthwatch Newcastle gathers and represents the views and experiences of children and adults on local health and social care services. They analyse and act upon...
